[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #3221: Fast, easy and beautiful on the fly rule-based rendering of OSM maps

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#3221: Fast, easy and beautiful on the fly rule-based rendering of OSM maps
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   Reporter:  mayeulk                           |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  enhancement                       |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Symbology                         |            Version:               
   Keywords:                                    |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  All                               |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                 |  
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 Currently, rule-based rendering of openstreetmap.org-based maps is pretty
 slow, not easy to achieve (many data-management operation, need to apply
 patch manually and recompile...) and sometimes give ugly results. It
 should be fast, easy and beautiful.



 '''Fast''': to make navigation a fun experience; to allow doing this on
 old computers/computers without internet access (for users not having
 access to the slippy map).
 '''Easy''': because everybody can create new tags of tags, there are
 thousands of different tags. They will never be displayed all on online-
 rendered map. There are as many different needs as users. Each user should
 be able to define what he/she wants to render, and how, based on personal
 needs and tastes.
 '''Beautiful''': artefacts, unwanted graphic features and semantic needs
 that are impossible to meet make ugly maps; a beautiful map is easy to
 read for the ordinary user, rich and precise for the advanced user.

 Below are links to related discussion and tickets related to achieving
 this more global need.
 ticket:3039
 ticket:2832

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3221>
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